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Report Launch: Protestant Migration from the West Bank of Derry / Londonderry 1969-1980

Dr Ulf Hansson and Dr Helen McLaughlin, 1 March 2018 | 01 March 2018

Why did members of the Protestant/ Unionist/Loyalist (PUL) community leave the west bank of Derry in their thousands since the late 1960s? The PFC posed this thorny question in a multilingual Political Guide to Derry published by the Centre in 1992. Some have argued that Protestants living on the we...

Legacy of Colonialism Exhibition

Facts about Atrocity: Reporting Colonial Violence in Postwar Britain

2 February 2018 | 22 August 2017

ABSTRACT What did people in Britain know about the violence of counterinsurgency campaigns at the end of empire in the 1940s and 1950s? In many ways, British knowledge about colonial violence was widespread. But it was also fragmented and ambiguous: whispered among family and friends; dramatized in...

VICTIMS of the Troubles who feel let down by the failure to implement legacy proposals in the Fresh Start agreement are being urged to send a message to the British government through a stark advert carried in Monday's Irish News. The highly unusual advert, which contains two blank pages, was taken...

Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency and Peacekeeping

Frank Kitson | 08 November 2011

Low Intensity Operations is an important, controversial and prophetic book that has had a major influence on the conduct of modern warfare. First published in 1971, it was the result of an academic year Frank Kitson spent at University College, Oxford, under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence,...